45 tation of being harder to please than that of many a club. A Yale football hero, though, had no trouble getting in. By June, 1916, when the squad- ron was called up for duty on the Mex- ican border, KIlpatrick had advanced to the rank of first sergeant. Squadron A spent six months at a cactus-strewn bivouac area in the southernmost part of Texas. Its members didn't get to scrap with many Mexicans, and some of them now say that the only really interesting conflict they witnessed there was a high-jumping contec;t between Kilpatrick and a horse. This resulted from a disparaging remark he made one evening about the mount of a fellow Squadron member-RegInald Rives, a Princeton man. Rives offered to bet that his horse could jump high- er than Kilpatrick could, regardless of the latter's exploits at Yale, and Kil- patrick took him up on It. A contest was arranged, with the whole squadron bettIng heavily on one side or the other; KIlpatrick, whose monthly pay was forty-five dollars, had twelve hun- dred dollars of his own money riding, so to speak, on himself. He won Just before leaving the border, Kil- patrick received a reserve commission. Soon after hIs return to New York, the United States declared war. Eager to get to France, and hearing that steve- dore battalions had a higher shipping , priority than cavalry squadrons, he wangled a transfer to the Quartermas- ter Corps, which promoted hIm to major but, disappointingly, assigned him to Wac;hington. He finally reached Europe in January, 1918, and became a G.H.Q. regulating officer, charged with supervising the railroads that were car- rying troops and matériel to the front. Within a year, he was a lieutenant colo- nel and the chief regulating officer for the whole A.E.F., and in April, 1919, at the age of twenty-nIne, he was made a full colonel. ! .... f ,'. ffi \. ... " " ;: '. '. ", . , , , >" oN'".J' . ". .".. ,,:.. . . ., N./ 'J' .:...... "I( .:,:..) , :0.:: .f"" 4 9:>- '%. .. 0' > ",,<>" oJ s ":t:J . . :", " . f /- >" t ' j ..\ 'v'v ^ .:. -.% #"'" " "3i .;".- ',' 't, i :S-- J . . ß ð'., :"" ""' n : . )P j 'Pj' : :-.: .'<- , , , ,> : s { .:.: i'", Th-- ,:' # w- >';" } ð , { .'" \. ",,\w -.. "':, '60 1:.. ,..... ^4- ...""., !. . ' - f n lJ < <f, <-. ,^,J .t<-,.. .., , < ,' q . .' >'.}'<(:' > if P '>f <"W': i: x ff{"A ^a:f' .' "'" q j , << : =-.. : :.... . ;: ' "I< "'" >.<- er cqjJèe...8'Y'oy the drier liqueur_ O N leave in Paris one afternoon In March, 1 91 9, Kilpatrick found himself at loose ends and remembered that a friend had urged him to look up a young divorcee there, a Yugoslav bar- oness named Stephanie d'Hengster Ray- mond. He telephoned her, and she asked him to tea. Kilpatrick arrived at five- thIrt} and left at six-thirty, by which tIme he had proposed marriage and had been accepted. It was a courtship so swift that he neglected to tell his fiancée his first name until several days latel. They were married the following Oc- tober. Mrs. KIlpatrick, though fluent in French, German, SerbIan, Bulgarian, Polish, and Russian, spoke little Eng- . I I " AND J I @ BENEDICTINE BRANDY There IS only 011P proper hlen(Hng of Benedictine "<;; exquisIte flavor \vith cognac"s superb drynes . ]1 i achip\ ed in Berl(; di("llne. o\\/n bottled B & B made at r"ecanlp" France. Th result is perfection. ahvays uniform.. ab-!;'alb delicious.' .fa IMPilRTfRS SIIIt[ 18 III IJp} If {!.UUft to fJU([I/(\ JULIUS WILE SONS & co.. !NC . NEW YORK 86 PROOF